Comic take on Nobels awarded to 10 research teams, amid flying paper airplanes

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Comic take on Nobels awarded to 10 research teams, amid flying paper airplanes

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Machines have little impact on nesting behavior, study finds

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Machines have little impact on nesting behavior, study finds

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Some of the world’s rarest and most precious metals, including platinum and iridium, could owe their presence in the Earth’s crust to iron and stony-iron meteorites, fragments of a large number of asteroids that underwent significant geological processing in the early Solar System.

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Some of the world’s rarest and most precious metals, including platinum and iridium, could owe their presence in the Earth’s crust to iron and stony-iron meteorites, fragments of a large number of asteroids that underwent significant geological processing in the early Solar System.

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In a discovery that counters prevailing thought, a study in mice has found that inactivating a pair of key genes involved in “fat-burning” can actually increase energy expenditure and help lower diet-induced obesity.

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In a discovery that counters prevailing thought, a study in mice has found that inactivating a pair of key genes involved in “fat-burning” can actually increase energy expenditure and help lower diet-induced obesity.

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A new chip will be used to measure the wind on Mars. This chip is the key piece of the anemometer on a weather monitoring station run by Spanish scientists for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, whose launch is planned for fall 2009.

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A new chip will be used to measure the wind on Mars. This chip is the key piece of the anemometer on a weather monitoring station run by Spanish scientists for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, whose launch is planned for fall 2009.

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